Does Aspartame Really Kill?
 Anti-aspartame activists are pointing the finger AT EACH OTHER!!!
Hello and welcome to my website. This
website is an independent rebuttal to the hysterical pseudo-science
and conspiracy mongering that propagates across the Internet
concerning aspartame. My name is Matt Lowry,
and my brother, Dr. Mark
Lowry (who is a practicing pediatrician), and I performed
independent research on this topic for about two years. After all of
our research, here is our conclusion: aspartame does NOT
kill, but try telling that to the hysterical and paranoid conspiracy
mongers on the Internet.
Anti-Aspartame
Conspiracy Mongering Knows No Bounds -- Tie-In to the 9/11 Terrorist
Attacks!
Why doesn't aspartame (Nutrasweet) kill?
Despite what the author(s) of the infamous Markle
email and other anti-aspartame scare
mongers on the Internet would like you to think, there is no
conclusive clinical evidence that supports their outlandish claims.
For instance, see what these scientific and journalistic
investigations have to say about this issue.
Scientific and
Other Investigations of Aspartame / Nutrasweet
In addition, the anti-aspartamers like to state that they have so-called
"experts" who have done research that backs up their claims.
However, a little investigation leads to some very revealing
information about these medical "experts". Besides these "experts",
the anti-aspartamers rely on basic fear, paranoia, and hysterics to
get their message out. To fuel this emotional (and clearly not
rational) fire, they often employ quite liberal doses of conspiracy
theory.
If the conspiracy mongers and anti-aspartamers are so concerned
about health issues, then why not take up a cause that scientific
medicine has validated as legitimate and pressing? As a
perfect example, what about supporting research for a vaccine against the AIDS
virus and distribution of that vaccine around the world? To go
on and on hysterically about a health non-issue (i.e., "aspartame
poisoning") is to draw much needed attention away from the valid
issues. But then, the next thing you know, the anti-aspartamers will
blame aspartame for AIDS, too (they actually do claim
aspartame is responsible for some autoimmune disorders -- crazy but
true).
Follow
Reasonable Science (Not Pseudoscience),
and Accomplish Some
Good...
If you'd like, feel free to ask Dr.
Lowry a question regarding aspartame and Nutrasweet. My brother
will address your questions in a timely manner, so be sure to check
back for a response.
Scientific Investigations of Aspartame
Latest FDA Statement on Aspartame (4-20-2007)
Artificial sweetener cleared of cancer link!
A huge federal study in people - not rats - takes the fizz out of arguments that the diet soda sweetener aspartame might raise the risk of cancer.
Learn more at WebMD
Wikipedia Entry on "Aspartame"
No danger from Nutrasweet during pregnancy
New England Journal of Medicine: No Aspartame-Headache Link
Search Medline's Database on "aspartame"
FDA statement
on aspartame
Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) evaluates aspartame-related complaints
Myths about Alzheimer's and Aspartame
Nutrasweet
& Brain Cancer Link? Flaws in the research...
MIT
study reaffirms the safety of aspartame
National
Multiple Sclerosis Society speaks up
What does the
American Diabetes Association think?
American Dietetic
Association position statement on aspartame
Ask the National
Cancer Institute about aspartame
Aspartame causes lupus? Not so fast...
American
Academy of Family Physicians addresses questions about aspartame
The
Chemistry of Aspartame -- What it is and isn't
Journalistic Investigations of Aspartame
Wikipedia Entry on the "Aspartame Controversy"
ABCnews.com
addresses the Nutrasweet email scheme
About.com
Poll: "The Genocide of Aspartame Poisoning?"
Anti-Aspartamer
Abuse: "Confessions of a Debunker"
About.com
debunks the scare mongers
Quackwatch.com
-- "Propaganda Techniques Related to Enviromental Scares"
In addition, here are some tasty tidbits (from the Aspartame Truth
Information Site) to wet your whistle:
Does
aspartame really cause cancer?
Is
there a conclusive aspartame-headache link?
What's
this about formaldehyde?
From an article in Science
Magazine about the importance of how science works:
The
Nature of Evidence
And here's a humorous Internet lesson in critical thinking:
Ban
"DiHydrogen Monoxide" from the DiHydrogen Monoxide Research
Division
This is NOT a pro-aspartame
site, it is not associated with Nutrasweet or Monsanto in any
way, nor do I advocate for the use (or non-use) of aspartame; I
honestly don't care one way or the other if people consume
aspartame. I first learned of so-called "aspartame poisoning" in
exactly the same way that many people initially became informed --
the Markle
email. If you never got the scare-email, you may have heard by
word-of-mouth and you then decided to look into the issue by
performing a websearch on the topic of aspartame, which may have led
you to a number of anti-aspartame
scare websites. However, one must bear in mind that a great deal
of mis-information is spread on the Internet, and in order to
distinguish fact from fiction (or fraud) one must sharpen up their
Occam's Razor and get their Baloney
Detection Kit in order.
Note that despite the fact that I conclude that aspartame doesn't
kill or cause any of the other horrible deleterious effects claimed
by the conspiracy mongers, I'm not entirely convinced that it is
100% safe for ALL people. There is, in my opinion, enough evidence
to suggest that aspartame causes some minor reactions (most probably
in the form of headaches,
it would seem) in a small percentage of the population that consumes
a large amount of aspartame. So, if you think that you might be one
of those few suffering from adverse effects, then by all means go on
and take the 60-day "No Aspartame Test". This is basically the idea
of getting off of all aspartame containing products for two months
to see if your symptoms disappear. However, my brother and I would
strongly caution you against taking any medical advice from
the anti-aspartame advocates, as they are not qualified medical
practitioners.
Incidentally, for all the claims made by the Markle
email and the scare
sites about aspartame causing cancer, blindness, lupus, multiple
sclerosis, etc they rarely mention the one conclusive danger
aspartame poses to phenylketonurics.
Kind of funny that for all of their posturing, the scare mongers
rarely mention the one real danger of aspartame, isn't it?
If you're interested, here are some of the references
that I have accessed and used during my time researching this issue.
As near as I have been able to tell, none of these references has
any connections to Nutrasweet or Monsanto, so I consider them to be
objective and unbiased.
Take a look at some of the feedback I've received which I've
posted on my Cheers n'
Jeers page.
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